Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t done any deep sky observing since the middle of December (apart from a few double stars). This has rather grated on me. Interminable cloud during the dark nights of the month has been very frustrating, as have the sequential cold-viruses I seem to have caught. At last, Friday night was clear and dark, and out I went, cold or not. Read more…

Well, at last my first post of the new decade (depending on when a decade starts). I’ve been ill, tired, and the weather’s been ….cloudy. So I haven’t been up to much. But the last couple of nights gave me some nice moon gazing and double star spotting. All good sport. Read more…